In 1974, photographer William Eggleston’s travelled around America’s deep south documenting, with a Sony Porta-pak, his encounters with the characters of Memphis and New Orleans. In one sequence of the film shots are fired, in others good old boys decapitate chickens and a young bearded man with an angelic face raves about being stranded in Canton, a colloquialism for being out of one’s mind on drugs or alcohol.

January 6, 2015

“Interviews With Francis Bacon” by David Sylvester and Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and “Room At The Top” by John Braine and “On Having No Head” by Douglass Harding and “Kafka Was The Rage” by Anatole Broyard and “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess and “City Of Night” by John Rechy and “The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz and “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert and “Iliad” by Homer and “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner and “Tadanori Yokoo” by Tadanori Yokoo and “Berlin Alexanderplatz” by Alfred Döblin and “Inside The Whale And Other Essays” by George Orwell and “Mr. Norris Changes Trains” by Christopher Isherwood and “Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols” and “In Art” by James A. Hall and “David Bomberg” by Richard Cork and “Blast” by Wyndham Lewis and “Passing” by Nella Larson and “Beyond The Brillo Box” by Arthur C. Danto and “The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind” by Julian Jaynes and “In Bluebeard’s Castle” by George Steiner and “Hawksmoor” by Peter Ackroyd and “The Divided Self” by R. D. Laing and “The Stranger” by Albert Camus and “Infants Of The Spring” by Wallace Thurman and “The Quest For Christa T” by Christa Wolf and “The Songlines” by Bruce Chatwin and “Nights At The Circus” by Angela Carter and “The Master And Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgako and “The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie” by Muriel Spark and “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov and “Herzog” by Saul Bellow and “Puckoon” by Spike Milligan and “Black Boy” by Richard Wright and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea” by Yukio Mishima and “Darkness At Noon” by Arthur Koestler and “The Waste Land” by T.S. Elliot and “McTeague” by Frank Norris and “Money” by Martin Amis and “The Outsider” by Colin Wilson and “Strange People” by Frank Edwards and “English Journey” by J.B. Priestley and “A Confederacy Of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole and “The Day Of The Locust” by Nathanael West and “1984” by George Orwell and “The Life And Times Of Little Richard” by Charles White and “Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock” by Nik Cohn and “Mystery Train” by Greil Marcus and “Beano” (comic, ’50s) and “Raw” (comic, ’80s) and “White Noise” by Don DeLillo and “Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom” by Peter Guralnick and “Silence: Lectures And Writing” by John Cage and “Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews” edited by Malcolm Cowley and “The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll” by Charlie Gillete and “Octobriana And The Russian Underground” by Peter Sadecky and “The Street” by Ann Petry and “Wonder Boys” by Michael Chabon and “Last Exit To Brooklyn” by Hubert Selby, Jr. and “A People’s History Of The United States” by Howard Zinn and “The Age Of American Unreason” by Susan Jacoby and “Metropolitan Life” by Fran Lebowitz and “The Coast Of Utopia” by Tom Stoppard and “The Bridge” by Hart Crane and “All The Emperor’s Horses” by David Kidd and “Fingersmith” by Sarah Waters and “Earthly Powers” by Anthony Burgess and “The 42nd Parallel” by John Dos Passos and “Tales Of Beatnik Glory” by Ed Saunders and “The Bird Artist” by Howard Norman and “Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music” by Gerri Hirshey and “Before The Deluge” by Otto Friedrich and “Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson” by Camille Paglia and “The American Way Of Death” by Jessica Mitford and “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote and “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” by D.H. Lawrence and “Teenage” by Jon Savage and “Vile Bodies” by Evelyn Waugh and “The Hidden Persuaders” by Vance Packard and “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin and “Viz” (comic, early ’80s) and “Private Eye” (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s) and “Selected Poems” by Frank O’Hara and “The Trial Of Henry Kissinger” by Christopher Hitchens and “Flaubert’s Parrot” by Julian Barnes and “Maldodor” by Comte de Lautréamont and “On The Road” by Jack Kerouac and “Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders” by Lawrence Weschler and “Zanoni” by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and “Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual” by Eliphas Lévi and “The Gnostic Gospels” by Elaine Pagels and “The Leopard” by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa and “Inferno” by Dante Alighieri and “A Grave For A Dolphin” by Alberto Denti di Pirajno and “The Insult” by Rupert Thomson and “In Between The Sheets” by Ian McEwan and “A People’s Tragedy” by Orlando Figes and “Journey Into The Whirlwind” by Eugenia Ginzburg

An abandoned subway chamber under Manhattan illegally opened for a year in 2009 allowed 103 select artists to paint for one night each. Then the largest underground art gallery in the world was sealed off from the world, the original entrance to the station removed. The Underbelly Projec is a mysterious urban art experiment that seeks to subvert the commercialism that has overtaken much of the street art scene.

The artists, including Sane, Swoon, Roa, Faile, Revok and Lister, worked for four hours each by candle lanterns, and weren’t allowed in and out to retrieve more supplies due to the danger of getting caught, which could result in serious criminal charges.

When curators Workhorse and PAC declared the project finished, there was no opening to show the work. In fact, the space’s location remains a secret kept by the MTA, which boarded up the space, making it, like the cave of Lascaux, a time capsule for future generations to discover.

London is one of the cities with the highest construction/destruction rate in the world and from December 2013 creators of urban art, graffiti, art installations have come together to stage a one-off “beautification”, pre-demolitions.

Without permission, they invade a building, create their murals and present temporary (one hour) exhibitions. To take part in the next event as anespectator or “beautifier”, write to tom@lastbreathproject.co.uk .

After premiering at the Tate Liverpool last year The Source (evolving), an ongoing series of conversations between artist Doug Aitken and groundbreaking pioneers from different disciplines, makes its U.S. debut in Park City, Utah, in conjunction with Sundance Film Festival‘s New Frontier. The program supports and showcases films that challenge and expand traditional narrative structures in storytelling in favor of entirely new viewer experiences.

Throughout Sundance The Source (evolving), will physically live in a specially-designed, 2000-square-foot standalone circular structure, created in collaboration with one of Aitken’s subjects, the architect David Adjaye. Six-channel video projections of the installation are projected across the walls of the building’s interior; the videos will also be projected onto the outer walls of the structure and visible from its exterior. Aitken has also developed a website to serve as home for the interviews, whose 22 subjects thus far include William Eggleston, Ryan Trecartin, Richard Phillips, Paolo Soleri, James Murphy, Jack White, Mike Kelley, Devendra Banhart, Beck, Tilda Swinton, Alice Waters, and James Turrell. Though the physical exhibition ends next Saturday, Aitken plans to continue to update the website with new conversations indefinitely.

In 2003 Christopher “moot” Poole founded 4chan, an uncensored online imageboard that lauched Internet “memes” such as LOLcats and Rickrolling. It was also the source of a high-profile hack of a mainstream media website and at least one activist campaign in the real world.

The video below shows “moot” at a TED talk in 2010, tracing the history of the web’s most influential subculture:

Inspired by the series of TED talks and applying the Secret Cinema model, The Lost Lectures take lectures out of academic settings into art-directed spaces in London, with a plan to stage events beyond the UK.

Locations are kept secret and only announced to ticket-holders a few days in advance. The next event will take place on November 22nd and 23rd, will be streamed live and speakers include feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, fashion blogger Susie Bubble and Lauren Pears, the creator of London’s first cat cafe.

For more information about future events and to watch past lectures, visit www.thelostlectures.com/#!/home.